NJ Transit is the first public transportation agency to partner with Google Wallet, allowing customers to wave their smart phones in front of a sensor to pay and sparing them the hassle of fishing for cash or credit cards.

The “contactless payment” options are available at New York Penn Station ticket vending machines and windows, at the Newark Liberty International Airport Rail Station (AirTrain), on bus routes 6, 43, 80, 81, 87 and 120 and on some buses on the 126 line, NJ Transit announced today.

“…websites you visit from our organic search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won’t receive information about each individual query. They can also receive an aggregated list of the top 1,000 search queries that drove traffic to their site for each of the past 30 days through Google Webmaster Tools.

I know a lot of people who aren’t but should be familiar with the Google Webmaster Tools suite. Now’s probably a pretty good time to get that going.

“The highest and best uses of social media are not for business. The are intensely personal.”

“Unlike the days of Kennedy’s assassination or 9/11, at this important historical moment I immediately turned OFF the television, and fired up my iPad, where I toggled back and forth between Google+ and Twitter.”

“For the people in these channels, it wasn’t about the facts. We already knew the only important one.”